Fastening protective coverings to upholstery of furniture



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J. C. M. TILLINGHAST Filed May 18, 1933 James GMTaZZv FASTENING PROTECTIVE COVERINGS TO UPHOLSTERY OF FURNITURE March 6, 1934.

Patented Mar. 6, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFEE FASTENING PROTECTIVE COVERINGS TO UPHOLSTERY F FURNITURE 13 Claims.

This invention relates to the fastening of protective coverings to the upholstery of furniture, and aims to provide an arrangement of the covering, the upholstery and the fastener, wherein the body of the fastener is interposed between the covering and the upholstery, and is prevented from being caught and loosened, or withdrawn, by the clothing of a person sitting on the chair or other piece of furniture.

The invention will be well understood by reference to the following description, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing of one specific embodiment thereof, while its scope will be pointed out more particularly in the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Fig. l is an elevation of the front face of an upholstered chair-back, with a protective covering thereon, and secured in place by four of the fasteners;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view, on a much enlarged scale, on line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the fastener or pin;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 44 of Fig. 3; and

Fig. 5 is a view illustrating the mode of attaching the fastener or pin to the covering, preliminary to attaching the latter to the upholstery.

Referring to the drawing, and to the embodiment of the invention selected for illustration, there is shown an upholstered chair-back 7, on the front face of which is a protective covering 9, variously termed a doily or tidy, the same being fastened in place by a plurality of fasteners or pins 11, one of which will now be described in detail, reference being had at first to Fig. 3.

The pin comprises generally a body 13 and a prong 15, the latter having a shank 1'7, and a loop is connecting the shank to the body. The shank is provided with a sharp point 21. The loop has an ofiset portion or hump 23, which, as shown in Fig. 1 for example, is exposed on the front face of the protective covering. This offset portion, as shown in Fig. 2, provides a recess for a small portion of the protective covering, and tends to pre vent the latter from moving lengthwise of the offset portion.

In the example shown, the entire pin is conveniently made of a single piece of wire which is bent into the desired form, and the body is relatively large as compared with the prong, thereby to provide a very considerable degree of stability for the pin. In the example shown, the body is a closed figure having two relatively long longitudinal sides 25, and a somewhat shorter,

transverse side 27. The two sides 25 converge toward the shank, and are connected by a fourth, relatively shorter side 29. To strengthen the short side, and in fact the whole structure, and to preserve the relative form and arrangement of the parts, one end of the wire is wrapped about the prong in the form of an eye 31, just below the offset portion or hump (compare Figs. 3 and 4).

The mode of attaching the pin to the protective covering is illustrated in Fig. 5, and is accom-- plished by passing the shank of the prong through the covering in one direction, and then through the covering in the opposite direction, a sufiicient distance from the first point to provide just enough material of the covering to fill the offset portion or hump snugly. The movement of the pin is continued until the latter is inverted from the arrangement shown in Fig. 5 to that which is shown in Fig. 2, the covering is laid upon the upholstery 33 of the chair, and then the shank of the prong is inserted into the stuffed upholstery, as shown in Fig. 2. As herein shown, the shank of the prong is disposed at an acute angle to the body, its angularity being such that after the covering has been attached at one corner tothe upholstery, the diagonally opposite corner of the covering can be attached by stretching the covering snugly, and then inserting the shank of the second pin into the upholstery, without any ma terial slackening of the covering. The other two diagonally opposite corners are then fastened in the same manner.

Having thus described one embodiment of the invention, but without limiting myself thereto, what I claim and desire by Letters Patent to secure is:

1. A pin for fastening a protective covering to the upholstery of a piece of furniture, the same comprising a body adapted to be placed between the covering and the upholstery, and a prong having a loop adapted to be passed through the covering from the back toward the front at one point and from the front toward the back at another point, and a shank adapted to be inserted in the upholstery, said shank being disposed at an acute angle to said body.

2. A pin for fastening a protective covering to the upholstery of a piece of furniture, the same comprising a body adapted to be placed between the covering and the upholstery, and a prong having a loop adapted to be passed through the covering from the back toward the front at one point and from the front toward the back at another point, and a shank adapted to be inserted in the upholstery, said shank being disposed at an acute angle to said body, and said loop having an outward offset to receive a portion of said covering,

3. A pin for fastening a protective covering to the upholstery of a piece of furniture, the same comprising a body adapted to be placed between the covering and the upholstery, and a prong having a loop adapted to be passed through the covering from the back toward the front at one point and from the front toward the back at another point, and a shank adapted to be inserted in the upholstery, said body and said prong being formed from a single piece of wire one end of which is the point of said prong and the other end being wrapped about a part of said prong.

4. A pin for fastening a protective covering to the upholstery of a piece of furniture, the same comprising a body adapted to be placed between the covering and the upholstery, and a prong having a loop adapted to be passed through the covering from the back toward the front at one point and from the front toward the back at another point, and a shank adapted to be inserted in the upholstery, said shank being disposed at an acute angle to said body, said body and said prong being formed from a single piece of wire one end of which is the point of said prong and the other end being wrapped about a part of said prong.

5. A pin for fastening a protective covering to the upholstery of a piece of furniture, the same comprising a body adapted to be placed between the covering and the upholstery, and a prong having a loop adapted to be passed through the covering from the back toward the front at one point and from the front toward the back at another point, and a shank adapted to be inserted in the upholstery, said shank being disposed at an acute angle to said body, and said loop having an outward offset to receive a portion of said covering, said body and said prong being formed from a single piece of wire one end of which is the point of said prong and-the other end being wrapped about a part of said prong.

6. A pin for fastening a protective covering to the upholstery of a piece of furniture, the same comprising a body adapted to be placed between the covering and the upholstery, and a prong having a loop adapted to be passed through the covering from the back toward the front at one point and from the front toward the back at another point, and a shank adapted to be inserted in the upholstery, said body and said prong being formed of a single piece of wire, and said body having a substantially closed perimeter.

'7. A pin for fastening a protective covering to the upholstery of a piece of furniture, the same comprising a body adapted to be placed between the covering and the upholstery, and a prong having a loop adapted to be passed through the covering from the back toward the front at one point and from the front toward the back at another point, and a shank adapted to be inserted in the upholstery, said body and said prong being formed of a single piece of wire, that portion of said wire which forms the body extending from said prong at one point and returning toward said prong at an adjacent point.

8. A pin for fastening a protective covering to the upholstery of a piece of furniture,- the same comprising a body adapted to be placed between the covering and the upholstery, and a prong having a loop adapted to be passed through the covering from the back toward the front at one point and from the front toward the back at another point, and a shank adapted to be inserted in the upholstery, said body and said prong being formed of a single piece of wire, that portion of said wire whichforms the body extending from said prong at one point and returning to and wrapped about said prong at an adjacent point.

9. A pin for fastening a protective covering to the upholstery of furniture, the same comprising a body to be placed between the covering and the upholstery, and a prong having a loop adapted to be passed from the back of the covering forwardly into the covering at one point and rearwardly from another point into the upholstery, said bodyhaving an extended perimeter disposed in a plane and said prong being disposed at an acute angle to said plane.

10. A pin forfastening a protective covering to the, upholstery of furniture, the same comprising a body to be placed between the covering and the upholstery, and a prong having a loop adapted to be passed from the back of the covering forwardly into the covering at one point and rearwardly from another point into the upholstery, said prong comprising a loop and a shank disposed in a plane, and said body having an extended perimeter disposed in a plane transverse to the first-mentioned plane, said shank being disposed at an acute angle to the second-mentioned plane.

11. A pin for fastening a protective covering to the upholstery of furniture, the same comprising a body to be placed between the covering and the upholstery, and a prong having a loop adapted to be passed from the back of the covering forwardly into the covering at one point and rearwardly from another point into the upholstery, v

said body, as a whole, having a flat formation to enable it to lie stably, fiatwise against the upholstery, and said prong being disposed at an angle to said body.

12. The combination of two sheets disposed with a surface of one against a surface of the other, and a pin having a body disposed between said surfaces, and a prong extending from between said surfaces outwardly into one of said sheets ata point within the perimeter of such sheet, thence from such sheet at another point also within the perimeter of such sheet, and being thereby interlocked with such sheet against movement in the direction of said surfaces, and thence into the other of said sheets.

13. The combination of two sheets disposed with a surface of one against a surface of the other, and a plurality of pins, each having a body disposed between said surfaces, and a prong extending from between said surfaces outwardly into one of said sheets at a point withn the perimeter of such sheet, thence from said sheet at another point also within the perimeter of such sheet, and being thereby interlocked with such sheet against movement in the direction of said surfaces, and thence at an acute angle to said body into the other of said sheets, the acutely disposed portion of each pin being directed JAMES C. M. TILLINGHAST.

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